In which circumstances would you offer adjuvant brachytherapy to a surgically staged patient with endometrial cancer if they have received prior pelvic external beam radiation therapy for a non-gynecologic pelvic tumor?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
Assuming that adjuvant treatment is clearly indicated based on pathology findings, I would likely offer it, with some caveats. Ideally, the previous RT would have been delivered on an adjuvant basis with a dose of 50 Gy or less to the vaginal cuff area. Rather than the typical 700 cGy x 3 fractions,...
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at University of Washington School of Medicine I agree with Dr. @Marcus E. Randall. It would be u...
I agree with Dr. @Marcus E. Randall. It would be u...